Setting up Time Zone Preferences
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Click the User icon at the top right and select Manage Profile .
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Click the PREFERENCES tab, and define the define default View and Time zone under the View and Timezone section . The timezone will be used as your Cloudability timezone.
Subscribe to Summary Emails
Send your most important cloud data to your email at time intervals you define.
- To define how often you’d like to receive your emails, in the Cloud Spend Summary Emails
section, select an option from the EMAIL FREQUENCY list: Daily, Weekly, Monthly, Quarterly or Off.
- Select the PREFERENCES tab.
- To define how often you’d like to receive your emails, in the Cloud Spend Summary Emails
section, select an option from the EMAIL FREQUENCY list.
Selecting Off opts you out of summary emails.
- To set your cost metric, click the list under Cost Metric for Mail and
select an option.
When you have linked accounts within a Consolidated Billing account family, AWS includes a blended rate and unblended rate in your detailed billing reports. If you're using Reserved Instances, it may make sense for you to report based primarily on Unblended cost.
NOTE : To use amortized costs, your default view cannot include a tag-based filter. Estimates will reflect Cost(Total) if Cost(Amortized) is selected. - To set your budget, click the drop-down under Budget for Mail and
select an option.
Your cloud spend summary email will look something like this:
Choice of delivery for delayed organizations
This is a custom setting for accounts using Cloudability Enterprise and must be enabled by the Cloudability Success team.
If your data is consistently delayed from AWS (due to data volume or parsing done before sending it to Cloudabiilty), this could create a scenario where users consistently get the new Data Delayed email. To prevent this, we've added an option that lets your users select when to receive their mail. They can choose to get their mail with the most up-to-date data (regardless of freshness) or opt to wait until we have the The last complete day . The former is the default.
- Month-to-Date Spend : See how much you've spent this month, then compare that to your spend on this date last month.
- Est. Monthly Spend : See how much you're estimated to spend this month based on a rolling average over a user-defined number of days, then compare that to last month's total.
- Yesterday's Spend : This number reflects your estimated spending for the day prior to your receipt of the email.
- Cost : This section of Daily Mail will list the AWS accounts and the AWS Services (such as RDS, Elastic Compute Cloud, etc.) which have generated the most spending this month to date.
- Month-to-Date Usage Hours : See how many hours of usage you've generated this month, then compare that to your usage hours on this date last month.
- Yesterday's Usage Hours : This number reflects how many hours of usage you generated for the day prior to your receipt of the email, and compare that total to the day before.
- Yesterday's Running Instance Count : See how many instances yesterday's usage hours spanned across, and compare that total to the day before.
- Usage : See the five most recent instances that have been started on your account.
- Email Settings : Drill into the data that matters to you with settings that allow you to filter by View, exclude certain spending types such as taxes or one-time costs, and choose whether your data is calculated using Blended or Unblended cost.